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After dinner, it was getting late, so Lin Chen decided to go to a place to rest instead of the original welfare home. Wang Nanshan was supposed to stay in the prefabricated house at the construction site, but for Lin Chen's sake, he specially booked a standard room in an ordinary hotel in the county, with the air conditioning on, for fear that Lin Chen wouldn't be comfortable.
“You don’t need to go to the construction site tomorrow. Go take a stroll around the county. Our Yinshan County has developed quite well in recent years.” Wang Nanshan said, taking out the dozen or so red banknotes that he had tried to give to Lin Chen that morning but was refused.
This time, Lin Chen did not refuse and accepted the money.
He wasn't relieved about what was happening at the construction site, but rather realized that there wasn't just one solution to the problem. Ultimately, it all came down to money.
If he had money, he wouldn't have suffered so much injustice in the Lin family, nor would he have been framed by Lin Yiming, Lin Ruoyue, and others, and he wouldn't have had to come all the way to Yinshan County. And the people closest to him in this world wouldn't have met with misfortune.
But the question is, how do you make money?
Early in the morning, while it was still barely light, Wang Nanshan left the hotel for the construction site. The journey was long, so he had to get up early.
When Lin Chen woke up, although he wasn't on the sunny side, it was already bright outside, and the time showed 10 o'clock. He felt that he had slept for an exceptionally long time, probably because awakening those skills had consumed too much energy.
With nearly a thousand yuan in cash in his hand, Lin Chen arrived at the pedestrian street, hoping to find business opportunities. He strolled along, stopping and starting as he went, and couldn't help but sigh to himself, "Although Yinshan County is just a county town, there are quite a few beautiful women here! Although they are still a bit inferior to his two older sisters, they are definitely better than those two women in spirit!" He smiled bitterly to himself.
While admiring the beautiful women, he also kept an eye on the store's discount and promotional information. Eventually, he arrived at a store called "King of Adidas" and stopped.
Lin Chen carefully examined the words on the signboard, trying to confirm whether the store sold genuine products. However, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed like a counterfeit.
If it's really a counterfeit, why is the store so crowded? It's even much busier than the official stores of major domestic brands.
Lin Chen felt that this newly opened super knock-off store seemed to hold unlimited business opportunities, so he decided to go in and find out.
After browsing around, he found that the cheapest outfit in this "King of Adidas" store cost over a hundred yuan, and sets priced over a thousand yuan were commonplace. The area with the largest crowds was the shoe section.
Lin Chen walked over and saw that the most expensive pair inside, the "Adidas King 2044 Global Limited Edition," was priced at a staggering 80,000 yuan!
That's enough to buy a decent small car!
Is this the sneaker reselling phenomenon that's so popular online right now?
Is the AJ that everyone's been hyping up actually the King of Adidas?
Lin Chen fell into self-doubt.
Looking at the enthusiastic expressions of the young people around him, Lin Chen suddenly realized that this might be the first pot of gold he would earn.
To celebrate its grand opening, this store is holding a lucky draw. Every purchase of clothing or shoes in the store earns you a chance to win. The prizes are divided into five tiers.
Lin Chen wasn't interested in the prizes at levels five, four, three, and two; they were just low-priced coupons, thermos cups, free shoe cleaning—very useless items. Only the first prize, the only one in the raffle box—
What truly interested him was the Adidas King 2044 limited edition shoe, valued at 80,000 yuan. This shoe wasn't just a prize in the raffle; it was also the only "high-profile" product in the store, and even in Yinshan County and Haizhou City!
Lin Chen even took out his phone to check and found that this "King of Adidas" was quite well-known. Although it was suspected of being a copycat, it had already opened several hundred stores nationwide.
This Adidas King 2044 limited edition is one of their main products this year, as only about 200 pairs of this sneaker were ever made worldwide.
Those sneaker enthusiasts have driven the price of this shoe, which originally cost just over 5,000 yuan, up to 80,000 yuan! This newly opened store, however, is using it as a prize draw item rather than selling it as a regular product.
A large part of the reason is that if it were sold as a product, it would likely be quickly bought by a fan. That would take away a very good gimmick.
Lin Chen was clearly a complete novice when it came to the niche industry of sneaker reselling. He would give a very modern label to anyone willing to spend money on these shoes – "foolish and rich."
However, Lin Chen was quite happy to be friends with these kinds of people. So he planned to win the shoes in the lottery and then resell them to them. Even a 9.9% discount would be fine! That's what Lin Chen was thinking.
Of course, Lin Chen's confidence in winning the prize had its reasons. It was largely due to the shop's female owner. Using his perception skill, Lin Chen knew the shop owner was named Su Hong'er, around thirty-five years old, and a very charming and sophisticated woman.
In an effort to create buzz and quickly gain fame for her store, she offered her one and only pair of "Adidas King 2044 Global Limited Edition" shoes, which she had worked so hard to acquire, as a prize. However, she was also somewhat reluctant to see the shoes taken away in a raffle.
So there's something fishy about that lottery box...
Hidden within this seemingly ordinary shop lies a secret, one that is quietly uncovered by Lin Chen, who possesses keen insight. Boss Su believed she was the only one in the world aware of this ingenious scheme; even the employee in charge of the raffle was kept in the dark.
"Let me try this vest on." Lin Chen pointed to a vest priced at 80 yuan, his tone casual, as if he were just looking for an ordinary item to try on.
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